The Fifth Operational Corps, formally known as the Home-Army Fifth Operational Corps, were a military organisation which defended the Earth from alien threats between 1969 and 1973. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time) The organisation was a successor to LONGBOW (PROSE: Moon Blink) and ICMG (PROSE: The Dogs of War) and a precursor to UNIT. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
History
After ICMG was destroyed in 1966, several important people in the British government wanted to create another alien defence organisation to replace it. (PROSE: The Dogs of War) The numerous alien attacks in early 1969 gave Major General Oliver Hamilton and Ian Gilmore the leverage needed to convince the government to create the Fifth Operational Corps. (PROSE: Mutually Assured Domination)
After the Corps was disbanded in 1973, those involved were ordered to pretend that it had never existed. (PROSE: The Enfolded Time)
